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Business performance management (BPM) (also known as corporate performance management (CPM) [2] enterprise performance management (EPM), [3] [4] organizational performance management, or performance management) is a management approach which encompasses a set of processes and analytical tools to ensure that an organization's activities and output are aligned with its goals.
In project management, resources are required to carry out the project tasks. These can be people, equipment, facilities, funding, or anything else capable of definition (usually other than labour) required for the completion of a project activity. [1] The lack of a resource can therefore be a constraint on the completion of the project activity.
An explanation of the difference between efficiency and (total factor) productivity is found in "An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis". [1] To complicate the meaning, operational excellence , which is about continuous improvement, not limited to efficiency, is occasionally used when meaning operational efficiency.
Critical chain is an alternative to critical path analysis. Main features that distinguish critical chain from critical path are: Use of (often implicit) resource dependencies. Implicit means that they are not included in the project network, but must be identified by looking at the resource requirements.
Tools: Expert Judgment Collections, Alternative Analysis, Publishing estimating data, Project management software implementation, Bottom up estimating; Outputs: Activity resource requirements, Activity attributes, Resource breakdown structure, resource calendars, request change updates.
In organizational studies, resource management is the efficient and effective development of an organization's resources when they are needed. Such resources may include the financial resources, inventory, human skills, production resources, or information technology (IT) and natural resources.
Performance management systems are employed "to manage and align" all of an organization's resources in order to achieve highest possible performance [1] and to eliminate distractions procured from individual agents that neglect the companies goals. [5] "How performance is managed in an organization determines to a large extent the success or ...
It has been noted that improvements in resource efficiency can occur at production, consumption, and end of product life stages. [2] Resource efficiency measures, methods, and aims are quite similar to those of resource productivity/resource intensity and of the slightly more environmentally-inclined concept of ecological efficiency/eco-efficiency.